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| The Love Gambit by Vithal Rajan |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 6. Minimum total without doubling = 6. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 20 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A combination of Indian storytelling and chess! Simple props, but needs a means of displaying the chess moves to the audience. |
| Synopsis | Game Six in the Varadachary Chess Cycle. Varadachary recalls New Years Eve, 1944 when Humphrey Bogart challenged Lauren Bacall to a chess match - and much more. |
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| Love Hurts by John Peel |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 5. Minimum total without doubling = 5. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 30 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | Drama with a surreal edge. |
| Synopsis | Tommy is sneaking away to see the circus, but unfortunately catches the same bus as his mum. She's got secret plans of her own, while Tommy meets a female clown he hopes will become his girlfriend. They both learn that love hurts. |
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| Love in the Time of Zombies by Damian Trasler |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 3. Minimum total without doubling = 3. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 45 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | One of the few one-act stage treatments of the zombie apocalypse. Single living room set. Contains mild (especially for a world over-run by the living dead) swearing. |
| Synopsis | Sometime in the near future. As flesh eating zombies terrorise the world, Brian and Susan attempt to maintain a normal life... |
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| Love Is Blind by Andrew Bawn |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. 1 necessary gender non-specific character and 2 or more optional characters. |
| Run Time | Around 7 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short comedy sketch on a simple set. |
| Synopsis | Gary and April meet on a blind date in a restaurant. There is an age gap between them, and they quickly realise they are not well matched. |
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| Love Me Tender by Roger Woodcock |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 55 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Four Elvis Presley songs are suggested, to be sung by character within the play. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | A one-act drama with a mix of comedy and pathos. A single kitchen setting. |
| Synopsis | In an economic downturn, a fish and chip shop owner and his wife can't decide whether to stay open or move to Spain, while their part-time potato peeler Billy happily sings Elvis songs and dreams of what's under Olga Pike's duffle coat. A tragedy will turn all their lives upside down. |
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| The Love Potion by Robert M. Barr |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 1. Minimum Female roles = 1. Minimum total with doubling = 2. Minimum total without doubling = 2. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 6 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A sketch for two actors |
| Synopsis | Jennifer is seeking a solution to her tangled love life and turns to the enigmatic Lazlo to assist. The potion he prescribes yields surprising results. |
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| Love's Labour's Lost [60-minute abridgement] by Shakespeare, abridged Jack Shaw |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 10. Minimum Female roles = 5. Minimum total with doubling = 17. Minimum total without doubling = 18. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 60 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A 60-minute abridgement of the Shakespeare comedy.
(The abridgement is copyrighted, so we charge for scripts and copying rights, but, because all the words are Shakespeare's and therefore out of copyright, performances are royalty-free.) |
| Synopsis | Ferdinand, King of Navarre, has decided that he and his court will devote three years to an ascetic life of studying, fasting, and forswearing the company of women. However, he has forgotten that the Princess of France and her retinue are due to visit. So, will the court pursue asceticism or pretty women? |
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| Lucky Balls by Louise Roche |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 5. Minimum Female roles = 8. Minimum total with doubling = 13. Minimum total without doubling = 14. Chorus. The chorus is optional (bar staff and band members). The script includes an on-stage band. |
| Run Time | Around 90 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | Suggested songs (titles only) are embedded in the script. These are intended to be played by the on-stage band. Lazy Bee Scripts does not supply any sheet music with this script. |
| Style | Full-length comedy play. Single set (with various locations within a wedding reception indicated by lighting and set dressing). Contains mild swearing. |
| Synopsis | Nine wedding guests are the victims of a really bad seating plan. They try to get along, then one suggests they chip in to buy a lottery ticket. When they win all their masks slip away to reveal who they really are. The poor maitre d' tries to keep the reception on track but in the end he can only watch as relationships unravel. |
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| Lucky Break by Frank Gibbons |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 2. Minimum Female roles = 2. Minimum total with doubling = 4. Minimum total without doubling = 4. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 4 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A short sketch with a simple set. |
| Synopsis | A coffee break for four, or something more? |
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| Lucky Dip by Jim Hollingsworth |
| Roles | Minimum Male roles = 3. Minimum Female roles = 4. Minimum total with doubling = 9. Minimum total without doubling = 9. No chorus. |
| Run Time | Around 39 minutes. [Estimated!] |
| Music | None. |
| Style | A one-act comedy, featuring the characters from the author’s previous play ‘Out for the Count’. Single living room set. |
| Synopsis | William and Marilyn are holding a coffee morning to raise funds for the mayor's anti-drugs campaign. Rumours of a drugs ring in the village stoke William's paranoia - what are the 'special plants' Vaslav is growing in his greenhouse, and what's in the mysterious package in the lucky dip? |
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